ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,284, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radiography apparatus provided with camera and image processing method" was invented by Koichiro Suzuki (Chiba, Japan) and Tadashi Nakamura (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiography apparatus is provided in which a doctor can recognize wear-off of anesthesia without interrupting an operation of an endoscope or the like. With the radiography apparatus, images of a plurality of parts of a subject are extracted from an image captured by a camera to calculate a movement amount for each part. The calculated movement amount for each part is weighted with a we...